All James Gray Quotes
- My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling… Class
- What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and… Action
- The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama. Down
- The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. Better
- William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis. Acting
- The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow. Blow
- I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later. Concepts
- My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York. East
- Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two. Confusing
- For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a… Accumulate
- The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on. Film
- When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter. Dreamed
- I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. Art
- I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most… Acting
- The opera in Los Angeles is excellent. Angeles
- I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane… Canyon
- There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose. English
- Baseball is the greatest thing in the world. Baseball
- Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish,… Any
- The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is… Art